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August 27, 2012
1. Opening conversation
- TPACK
- RSAnimate: Daniel Pink, Drive [VIDEO]
- Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work
- What schools need: Vigor instead of rigor
- Personalization v. differentiation v. individualization
2. Bloom’s / Webb’s
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Chart
- Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Guide
- Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)
- Iowa State University Bloom’s new taxonomy handout
- Bloom’s quicksheets (see also Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
- Bloom’s taxonomy of measurable verbs
- Thinkfinity Bloom’s verbs
3. Transition to technology
4. Scott’s slides
- Global Economy
- Are You an Active Participant?
- Local v. Global
- Crowdsourced Amateurs
- Open, Accessible, & Free
- Active & Interactive
- Juvenoia
- Are Your Students Findable?
- Exponential Change
5. Global
- Google Art Project
- Skype
- Flat Classroom projects (see also their book!)
- School connection and collaboration resources
6. Crowdsourced
- Primary Math wiki
- Science Alive! wiki
- Asian History wiki
- iOS education app reviews and web sites
- Pike County, Missouri local history project – class wiki v. Wikipedia
7. Open, accessible, and free
- Math videos: Khan Academy v. students
- Book reviews: Adults v. students
- Book trailers: Publishers v. students
- Photos: Flickr Creative Commons; The Alamo; Newton, Iowa
- Critical thinking prompts: writing, science, math 1, math 2
8. Active and interactive
- E-books and apps
- App: What was I scared of?
- App: The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
- App: Factor Samurai
- App: Algebra Touch
- App: WordWit
- App: iMuscle
- App: Tick Bait’s Universe
- App: NYPL Biblion
- App: Waste Land
- App: The Civil War Today
- App: World War II Interactive Timeline
- App: Our Choice
- iBooks Author (see also this story)
- TodaysMeet
- Games and simulations
- App building tools
9. Robust student agency and voice
- Extreme Biology blog
- Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom blog
- Quadblogging
- VoiceThread 4 Education wiki
- Minecraft history project (draw or describe a self-sustainable town)
- More Than That video project
- Some others for you to explore
10. Every educator should have a RSS reader (build your own capacity as learners)
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
- Subject-specific blogs (see also Scott’s Delicious tags)
- 10 blogs to get teachers started
11. Technology integration resources
- Technology and learning spectrum
- TPACK (see also handout)
- Technology integration matrix
- Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
- Web 2.0 that works
- Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
12. Personal productivity
- Shareaholic
- Evernote (and Clearly)
Miscellaneous resources
14. Problem- / Inquiry- / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- New York Performance Assessment Consortium
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
15. Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
CASTLE resources
- Dangerously Irrelevant (Scott)
- Education Recoded (CASTLE directors)
- CASTLE
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
- Recommended reading (including Scott’s new book!)
- Recommended viewing
- Other resources
